Now we're grownups, and we've got the stories.Īgain, I don't remember what this book said, but I do remember my basic reaction. I engaged in a lot of behavior as a teenager that on paper sounds pretty pathological or at least disturbing, and I'm not saying that's ideal or that I want my kids doing all of it, but I did make it out the other end, you know? As did a lot of other girls I know who had much more extreme problems. I mean, obviously girls shouldn't be cutting themselves or trying to commite suicide, but adolescents feeling bad a lot of the time seems normal to me. At the same time, I do have some basic belief that adolescence is supposed to be kind of miserable: that's called "growing up," and it hurts. Raising girls - raising anyone! - not to be all screwed-up around here - around anywhere! - is hard work, and parents deserve all the help they can get. Honestly, though, I'm sure this is a gross mischaracterization of everything in this book, which I honestly don't remember one bit. I felt at the time that it was making too much of girls' helplessness and sort of encouraging us to feel sorry for ourselves and to wallow in a sense of victimization, blaming our parents and "the media" for everything. I read this in the mid-nineties when it came out, and I remember feeling, as a teenage girl, annoyed and offended. It's definitely more of a statement about me than it is about the book, which I don't really remember anyway.
Mary Pipher is a clinical psychologist and therapist. Sara Gilliam, MFA, MEd,is Editor-in-Chief of Exchange, the leading magazine for early childhood professionals.This is a biased and thoughtless review, based on vague memories of a cranky adolescent's insensitive snap judgment, so you shouldn't pay any attention to it. Like the first version, this one is written for girls and all those who care about them. Pipher and Gilliam examine the impact of the digital age and the links between the decline in face-to-face interactions and the increase in girls’ levels of loneliness and despair. In this edition they explore girl’s needs that have stayed the same across time and the changes in the culture since 1994. And, since the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the enormous growth of social media, depression and suicide rates for girls have soared. They write that, while this generation is closer to their families and less rebellious than the one in 1994, it continues to struggle with America’s misogynistic, girl-poisoning culture.
Twenty-five years after the publication of the Reviving Ophelia,Mary Pipher and her daughter Sara Pipher Gilliam have revised and updated the original number #1 New York Times bestseller.
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